The Lost Season: Helping Student-Athletes Thrive During COVID
While we may repeatedly tell our students that their identity is found first and foremost in Christ, perhaps right now they are in a better place to listen and believe.
While we may repeatedly tell our students that their identity is found first and foremost in Christ, perhaps right now they are in a better place to listen and believe.
Teenagers have short attention spans. Teenagers have no filter. But teenagers are also in a critical season of their lives when they need wisdom, comfort, encouragement, truth, and hope.
We speak the truth of God and defend the hope within us as citizens of a greater Kingdom. So, what does this look like in this political age?
One of forty- two offerings available on Rooted Reservoir, this video presents a framework for games to reinforce a culture of grace that tears down the walls between students, in order that the gospel would shine forth in every facet of your ministry.
Our students do not have to continue to feel hopeless in the dark captivity they feel at their school or in this world. Rather, they may rest in the fact that they have a Savior in heaven who stands at the right hand of God and intercedes on their behalf.
In a world that is quick to cancel, the Christian response to the sins of our brothers and sisters is not quiet submission or public shame, but Gospel-centered critique spoken in love.
Jesus restores work to its proper place by stepping in to be the faithful Savior that nothing else ever could ever be. His perfect life, substitutionary death, and victorious resurrection have secured for us all the security, meaning, and identity we will ever need.
In one way or another, our students will be faced with reconciling suffering and the “good life.” As youth pastors, we need the resources of the gospel to point teenagers to a biblical perspective on suffering.
Be faithful to the calling you have received. That faithfulness will combat the jealousy of being compared and will provide you courage as you lead students to look to Jesus more than to human leadership.